Monday, 2 December 2013

If you are writing a
book you will often turn to the internet to check facts or look up places. I’m
quite a lazy researcher as A. it takes a lot of time and I’d rather be getting
on with writing and B. the truth sometimes gets in the way of a good story. If
you are using historical facts they will have to be accurate. For book 2 I’ve
been turning to the internet again to get answers to some important questions
I’ve been asking myself:

(The typos and
misspellings etc. have nothing to do with me, I’ve copied these directly from
the site)

I do not believe they can. this question makes me
think of The Vampire Lestat, where Lestat's mom
Gabrielle wanted to cut her hair and look like a guy. but every day when she
slept, her hair would grow back to the length it was when she died. she was
very distraught about it. i imagine a tattoo would be the same, like an injury
to the body that is almost immediately healed. so heres your life lessons from
this: 1) make sure you properly groom yourself constantly in case you become a
vampire cause you'll never get the chance to change yourself afterwards lol and
2) go ahead and get a tattoo if you are a vampire cause if yo udont like it tomorrow,
it'll be gone lol

As usual there is a
bit of vitriol too:

Well duh...theyre not
real.There are however a lot vampires in literature,movies and surprise,
mythology and folklore.Hence why this question is here.If you have nothing to
contribute quite frankly don't waste your time or mine.

And the indignant souls who
take it all just a bit too seriously

Why wouldn't they be able to? The
pain will obviously fade away, but the ink is another thing. The ink is like
permanent skin paint, it itself is not pain and will not fade away like it
would if it WAS pain. That's all their is to it(Besides the fact that vampires
really DO exist).
Hope this helps.

When you read fantasy You
mind becomes filled with thought of fantasy... For there is no way that any
real vampire would expose itself to such danger.... And with you not really
knowing what a real demonic vampire is, I can understand your question... First
off there are some very serious vampire hunters that exist all over this world and
they take joy in the demised of vampires.... So I seriously doubt that they
would expose themselves in that manner...... When maintaining there secret is
on the top of every vampires list.......

that is a very good
argument. I would imagine the answer being no. But i'm not sure. I would think
since they are always so clean and beautiful(since they heal so easily) that it
would heal immediately but since it is ink idk? and don't some have piercings
so it probably just depends on the writer or imaginer.
awesome argument though!

This is probably why I
write fantasy, you can make up your own mind and do whatever you want! I’ve
decided that Cameron can have his arm tattooed with a Saltire and Scotland
underneath.

No reflection (often because the vampire has no soul).
This sometimes extends to shadows. But it depends on the vampire apparently. In
one medium there are several types of vamps who have various weaknesses. In more recent
examples this has been 'modernised' in terms of the vampire not being able to
be picked up by audio or video recording or transmitting equipment.

Then this next snippet caught my eye. I thought this
was a really fun character flaw for a vampire to have and I’m certain I will do
something with that. I think that modern vampire stories sometimes take them
self too serious, I can’t imagine the vampires in twilight to get distracted by
having to absolutely count some spilled rice, but I would have maybe enjoyed twilight
if they did.

Occasionally suffer from severe OCD. One
folkloric method of dealing with Vampires was to drop thousands of grains of
rice in their coffin, the theory being they'd be compelled to count them all
when they awake, wasting the whole night instead of getting up and terrorizing
people.

The folklore version also is told with
sesame seeds, and may also extend to any small, numerous nut or grain, if
not any particulate (handfuls of sawdust?). Fairies also have this
problem.

Dropping a bunch where you stand is a
known way to escape the OCD variant of vampire.

A similar folklore variant involves
hanging a sieve, colander, or other household item that's full of holes
outside your front door. That way, the vampire will stop and count all the
holes, leaving them vulnerable at sunrise. ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR! FOUR
GRAINS OF SAND! AH-HA-HA-HA!

Apparently poppy seeds were used to
great effect in Greece, as they had the additional benefit of putting the
vampire to "sleep".

Also on the OCD theme, vampires
will, like fairies, be obsessed with out of place and messily-tied knots, and
must stop what they're doing to untie them.